Yep. It's rather striking that the Richard Thompson of age 22 sounds strikingly similar to the contemporary Richard Thompson. He dialed in the "signature sound" so early in his career. And as for Sandy: the voice of an angel, silenced at such an early age. <sigh>

It's incredible that a taper was present and bagged a fine audience capture. Excellent SQ & balance. It helped that (based on ambient/background noise level) that the audience numbered b/w 25-40 souls. Taper probably didn'e even require a "protective posse" in order to snatch a clean capture. But John Prine (reduced to) playing aboard a northern cruise liner? The humanity. Excellent setlist, nonetheless. One of the most heart-wrenching Prine renditions of "Hello In There" I've heard, and I've heard a lot of Prine renditions of that number.

Well, AK is back up, so Mystic probably won't be back to answer my question....

Oh ye of little faith. I always check back,, but since (as you wrote) "AK is back up" it is unlikely I'll be returning to "PC" (ha, the irony) and the "Audiokarma Temp" board.

In response to your question, the "live" performances I posted @ PC (ie, Sandy Denny & Shelagh McDonald, both concerts @ 1971) are (analogue to digital) conversions of ROIO (recordings of independent origin) capturd by a member of the listening audience, most like on cassette tape (ie, the audio "master"), and subsequently dubbed & traded among the ROIO taper/trader community, a network of "live" music connoisseurs that's been active since the late 1960s. Where the process once involved type (or hadwritten) lists and the mailing to & fro of cassette tapes, it now involves a bitorrent client (Deluge, Vuze, etc.) and a membership @ such ROIO trading sites as ZOMB, The Trader's Den, or Hunger City if that tracker is still active.

Are you a member @ "regular" AK? If not, become a member (and better still, a subscriber), then shoot me a PM and I'll provide more technical info & links @ which you can join in these activities.